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THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD

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THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD

by Joan Colby With apologies to T.S. Eliot August is the deadliest month, breeding 400 shootings, 78 dead in the city, mixing Memories of 2...

DOVES BY STORMLIGHT

Unknown 03.00 Add Comment campaign, David Chorlton, dove, earthquake, light, news, poetry, propaganda, refugees, rubble, storm, thenewverse.news, war politics Edit

DOVES BY STORMLIGHT

by David Chorlton Wednesday’s was a sky to cleanse a sinner of his sins: apocalyptic rays from sunset streaming up against a storm about to ...

RELAXING INTO BLACKNESS

Unknown 03.00 Add Comment Barack Obama, Billie Holiday, blackness, childhood, color, French, Hempstead, Jamaican, Long Island, Malgache, New York, Orel Protopopescu, poetry, skin, thenewverse.news Edit

RELAXING INTO BLACKNESS

by Orel Protopopescu “He [Obama] was not always free to relax into his blackness, out of fear that it would frighten white America." ...

I SHOULD HAVE PLAYED

Unknown 03.00 Add Comment Aleppo, children, injured, Martha Landman, Omar Hospital, pastiche, poetry, Primo levi, Syria, tears, thenewverse.news, victims Edit

I SHOULD HAVE PLAYED

by Martha Landman after “Unfinished Business” by Primo Levi Sir, please accept my apology for taking up your time. And the apology of all th...

GHAZAL: A NIGHT ALREADY DEVOID OF STARS

Unknown 03.00 Add Comment #LoveTrumpsHate, #StopHateDumpTrump, blood, bombing, ghazal, hate, Jackleen Holton Hookway, love, Martin Luther King, stars, Syria, violence Edit

GHAZAL: A NIGHT ALREADY DEVOID OF STARS

by Jackleen Holton Hookway Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding a deeper darkness to a night already devoid of ...

THE RED MAN WITH CLOSED EYES

Unknown 03.00 Add Comment #LoveTrumpsHate, #NeverTrump, aliens, dislocation, empire, exclusion, fugitives, gay, greed, History, illegals, immigrants, name-calling, poetry, shame, Tanmoy Das Lala, thenewverse.news Edit

THE RED MAN WITH CLOSED EYES

by Tanmoy Das Lala You call them rapists, murderers, criminals , mock The silence of a grieving mother, yet The people in the ro...

THE AMERICAN CREDO, 2016 VERSION

Unknown 03.00 Add Comment capitalism, curse, Establishment, George Salamon, market, poetry, poor, presidential campaign, thenewverse.news Edit

THE AMERICAN CREDO, 2016 VERSION

by George Salamon The United States, the wealthiest nation on Earth, also abides the deepest poverty of any developed nation, but you would...

A SCRAP OF FOUND PARCHMENT (TO AN ATHENIAN SWIMMER)

Unknown 03.00 Add Comment American, Athenian, Jenna Le, laurel, leaves, Olympian, poetry, Ryan Lochte, swimmer, thenewverse.news, Troy, wreath Edit

A SCRAP OF FOUND PARCHMENT (TO AN ATHENIAN SWIMMER)

by Jenna Le Ryan Lochte explains how a Trojan wall ran into his chariot. Do you believe you deserve your leisure, drunk spraddle-legged boy?...

THE BLOODIED BOY AND THE GAMES

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THE BLOODIED BOY AND THE GAMES

by Jay Sizemore Can you hit the water like a knife, so sharp and so quiet it remains oblivious to the stabbing? No somersaults by...

MY GREAT-GRANDPARENTS & THE BURKINI BAN

Unknown 03.00 Add Comment beaches, burkini, fabric, faith, France, grandmother, Hasidi, Judith Terzi, piety, poetry, scarf, soul, thenewverse.news, tichel, yarmulke, Zipporah Edit

MY GREAT-GRANDPARENTS & THE BURKINI BAN

by Judith Terzi Image source: Judith Terzi after “What people are saying about ‘burkinis’ in France” — L.A. Times , August 18, 2016 Zippora...

MUSE IN ALFALFA FIELDS

Unknown 03.00 Add Comment #LoveTrumpsHate, #NeverTrump, #StopHateDumpTrump, alfalfa, Chevy, David Spicer, ego, escape, haza, poetry, poison, thenewverse.news, Utopia Edit

MUSE IN ALFALFA FIELDS

by David Spicer I roar through Utopia in my steroid Chevy, cram a baguette in this gorge of a mouth, a poster boy for broccoli haters, climb...

WALT WHITMAN AT THE 2016 OLYMPICS

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WALT WHITMAN AT THE 2016 OLYMPICS

by Bob Katrin O for any and each the body correlative and attracting. Singing the muscular urge and the blending… the welcome nearness… the ...

SOBERANES FIRE 2016

Unknown 03.00 Add Comment #BigSur, #CalFire, #Monterey, #SoberanesFire, Cachagua, Carmel Valley, conflagration, containment, Dani Ridge, Jackson Camp, Jennifer Lagier, poetry, Post Summit, PTSD, thenewverse.news Edit

SOBERANES FIRE 2016

by Jennifer Lagier #SoberanesFire #Monterey #BigSur Image source: KPCC Fire Tracker Concours d’Conflagration: Day 15, 35% containment Overni...

HARNEY PEAK

Unknown 03.00 Add Comment Amy Brunvand, Army Gen. William S. Harney, Black Elk, Black Elk Peak, ghost, Harney Peak, native Americans, Oglala Sioux, poetry, thenewverse.news Edit

HARNEY PEAK

by Amy Brunvand “A federal board on Thursday renamed Harney Peak in the Black Hills to Black Elk Peak, saying the name of the state's hi...

TROPES

Unknown 03.00 Add Comment #blacklivesmatter, allegory, cook, exercise, Florida, lonely, poetry, police, Punta Gorda, role-play, Rome, Sarah Russell, seniors, shooting, simile, thenewverse.news, trope Edit

TROPES

by Sarah Russell Left: Four policemen in Rome cooked pasta for an elderly couple after their loneliness and television news caused them such...

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